Bank check and stub



A. A. FRANKEL BANK'. CHECK AND STUB Filed July s, 1.926

Patented May 29, 1928.

UNITED STATES ARMIN A. FRANKL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BANK CHECK AND STUB.

Application led July 3,

My invention relates to bank checks and more particularly to checks issued in lieu of wages or sala-ries.

T he main object of my invention is to elim inate certain errors and losses, thus providing better protection to the maker ofthe check and of the person cashing same.

Under the present system of paying employees by check, oftentimes the checks are distributed by a subordinate employee so that the o'ice has no immediate record that each man received the check belonging to him.

Then an employee cashes his check he usually presents same to a grocer or other merchant who, unless personally acquainted with the man, has no means of knowing whether the check presented is the property of the person presenting same or whether he has stolen or found it.

In my invention I propose to provide means for overcoming these objectionable features.

This object, and other advantageous ends which will be described hereinafter, I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure l is the face view of a preferred embodiment of my invention, and

I41 igure. 2 is the reverse side thereof.

Referring to the drawing, l represents the face of a salary clieck printed in accordance with the usual method of printing such checks, the matter on the face of the check may of course be adapted to the users needs. The printed matter differs from the ordinary check in that it contains a. space to insert the date to which services are paid by this check, as indicated at 2. 3 is the usual stub which remains in the check book, being detachable from the other stub and check by perforations, as indicated at Ll. 5 is an oflice stub which is signed by the employee when he receives the check and detached at the perfof rations 6 and returned to the oiiice by the employee who delivers the check, thus showing the paymaster that the right party has received the check. 7 represents the cashiers stub on which is printed an approximat-e legend directing the employee to sign vhis name and address, on lines 8 and 9 re- 1926. Serial N0. 120,336.

spectively, in the presence of the employee delivering the check.

IVhen cashing the check, the' payee presents it to a merchant or other person and endorses same on line l() on the reverse side of the check. The person cashing the check tears ofi the stub 7 and compares the endorsement with the signature on the stub, thus being assured that theparty cashing the'check is entitled to the money called for on t-he face of same. He then files the payors stub so that he may have the name and address of the payeel in case any question concerning the check should arise later. These stubs also provide him with names and addresses for circularization or other means of advertising. 1

After the check has been passed through the banks and returned to the maker, he has a receipt for the wages or salary of that particular employee to the date indicated on the face ofthe check.

l/Vhile VI have described my invention as taking a particular form, it will be understood that the various parts may be changed without departing form the spirit thereof,

and' hence I do not limit myself to the preoise construction set forth, but consider that I am. at liberty to make such changes and al.- terations as fairly come within the scope of the appended claim.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by ters Patent is As an. article of manufacture a single stri p' of material divided by lines of demarcation into distinct sections but separably united by a line of scoring, one of said sections having appropriately designated spaces adapting it for use as a negotiable instrument and the other section having appropriately desigwhat Letnated spaces for the signature of the payee and adapted to be issued integral with said negotiable instrument, and an appropriately designated kspace on the back of the negotiable instrument section adjacent the line of scoring for the indorsement of the payee.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ARMIN A FRANKEL. 

